Maybe you're out there and you're feeling weary, feeling burden, you're feeling beat up, left behind, or even in your experience as a Christian in the church, you feel like you've been run over, like you don't fit.

You know that Jesus is legit, but maybe the problem is with you, and you've felt that over and over, been made to feel that over and over, and you just can't shake it.

If that's where you are, this podcast is for you today.

John and I are going to have a pretty tender, honest conversation about the things that matter most to us as pastors and even in some

senses why Theocast exists at all. And that is to hold out Jesus Christ for us. He came to save

people like you and like me and like John. So we're going to rejoice over him today.

And we're going to talk about him and we hope you're encouraged by it. Stay tuned. If you're going to rejoice over him today, and we're going to talk about him,

and we hope you're encouraged by it. Stay tuned. If you're new to theocast, you may not have heard of

this word. It's called pietism. You ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus

rest and joy, that you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what

Christ has done for you. It's dread versus joy, really. That's pietism. Piatism causes

Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope, not in what Christ has done, but what

they're doing. And we have a little book for you. It's free. We want you to download it.

And we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism.

Reform theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ,

and when Jesus says, come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?

You can download it at our website. Just go to Theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ,

conversations about the Christian life from a confessional

reform and pastoral perspective. Here at Theocast, we are aiming to take the clutter off of the

gospel. We don't want Christ to be obscured. We want to hold him out to you week every week on the

show. And in doing that, we aim to reclaim the purpose of the kingdom of Christ and the fact that we get to live in peace and joy and freedom in it, even the side of the resurrection.

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